I made a ‘Call Me By Your Name’ fan art! It was one of my favorite movies from last year and I just loved how it reminded me of a good shonen-ai manga that I used to read when I was a teenager. I colored it digitally using Kyle T Webster watercolor brush. Lately, I’ve been struggling with coloring digitally and this was a great exercise to see what a digital watercolor brush can do.
Here’s a work in progress of this illustration. I always start with a pencil rough sketch on paper. It’s the most comfortable and fastest way to get my ideas down. Then I scan it and do the cleaned up pencil drawing in Photoshop. Then on a new layer, I start coloring the figures. I concentrate on especially the face. Getting the right skin tone and facial expression is very important so I want to spend enough time to work on it the way I like it. Then in a new layer, I color the rest of the picture roughly to see if the overall color works. Then I refine them and it’s done!
I am going to bring some copies of this print for sale for MoCCA next weekend so if you are in NYC and a fan of this gorgeous movie, stop by my table at A106!
One of the things that strike me in the CMBYN movie as being a little bit different, yet somehow still quite substantial, is the subtle knowing and influence of Annella Perlman towards Elio’s and Oliver’s blossoming relationship.
Here ini the first meeting between Elio and Oliver, we first get a glimpse of their handshake from mrs. Perlman’s point of view.
And then there are the small knowing looks that Annella gives off during certain scenes like she knows exactly that her son is smitten with Oliver. Including thev”look” she gave during the morning after scene.
Annella Perlman also subtly in her own way, convinces Elio to pursue his feelings for Oliver. Noted during to speak or to die”, telling Elio that Oliver likes him too and suggesting that Elio goes with Oliver to Bergamo.
Many people remarked on Elio’s much coveted father-son relationship with prof. Perlman. However, during the entire movie we can just how much Elio also loves and adores his mother.
A crucial change during the goodbye scene that is not in the book, but tore me up so much more (yes, motherly hormones) is the fact that when his whole world came crumbling down…the one person he turned to for support and confort…is his mother. And Annella Perlman delivered, in her own quiet dignified way.
Lastly, when every single one of us was reduced ta sobbing mess…crying alongside Elio during the end credit scene, one voice managed to pull him back from the brink of despair…telling him with just one word that “we are here…I am here for you”…that soft gentle voice calling with love, “Elio”.
Now I may be wrong about this, but I think this was deliberately done by Luca. Remembering the story of how he turned down people who wanted to finance the movie because they wanted the mother to be the antagonistic character, in the end Luca and/or James did the opposite and turned the mother into a hero in her own way. ❤️❤️❤️
In the weeks that we’d been thrown together that summer, our lives had scarcely touched, but we had crossed to the other bank, where time stops and heaven reaches down to earth and gives us that ration of what is from birth divinely ours. We looked the other way. We spoke about everything but. But we’ve always known, and not saying anything now confirmed it all the more. We had found the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.
Call Me By Your Name, Andre Aciman (dir) Luca Guadagnino
The meaning of the river flowing is not that all things are changing so that we cannot encounter them twice, but that some things stay the same only by changing.
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